History Test

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Inflation

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A raise in prices

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General Strike

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A strike where all members of a community go on a strike, not just a particular industry.

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Union

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A brotherhood

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75% of the police force was laid off. The police department struck. In 1919 police officers had cool hats and buttons from copper. “Cops” came from copper buttons.-no cops equals a rise in crime -stores were vandalized

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Boston Police Strike

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there was influx of african americans in large city and white people did not like the influx.

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Led to race riots

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fear of communists in america taking overbecause of the hair that the communists had people began to shave and they did not want to look like the bolsheviks

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Red Scare

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Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer

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his orders that started the “red scare”. his house was the victim of a bombing.

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many people were arrested and deported for thinking of have been communists and were deported back to eastern europe.

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During the Red Scare

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emma goldman

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she was very smart and believed in communism and that it bettered the world. she was even deported.

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j edgar hoover

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created fbi. Very anti-communist. Director of the FBI till his death

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Andrew Mellon

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secretary of treasury

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Trickle down theory economics- To relieve the tax burn from the rich, let their taxes go way down to give them more money. Then, the rich will spend that money to trickle down to everybody else.

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Andrew Mellon's invention

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this theory did not help everyone, farmers were in the “quiet depression”

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false prosperity

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people started to slow down buying things

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Reason for the great depression

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business of america is the business

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Said by Calvin Coolidge

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Created the Dawes plan

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Charles Dawson

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it was made to help germany pay its reparations for the war because they simply did not have the funds to pay back the money

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Dawes plan

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Reduced naval buildup in world navies

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Washington Naval Conference 1921

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Promise that war would not be an instrument of foreign policy by any nation that signed it, 14 nations -- did not work however because there was no way to enforce it

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Kellogg- Briand Pact

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creator of the first motor company

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Henry Ford

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most popular car model

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Model-T

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Gasoline stations, car dealerships, insurance companies, concrete companies

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Result of cars being created

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hero of heroes for winning the 1925 contest to fly accross the

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Lindberg

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to believe in the literal explanations of the Bible and live according to that.

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Fundamentalism

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State that banned teachers from teaching evolution

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Tennessee

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Darwin said that people came from monkeys

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Monkey Trial

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alcohol was outlawed

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Prohibition

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Enforced Prohibition

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Volstead Act

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Speakeasies

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hidden bars

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Edward Hopper

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Artist

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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Artist

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Lost Generation authors

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wrote about antiheroes and were disillusioned with US societypost world war I writers who were disillusioned from american society

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Made millions selling alcohol illegally

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Al Capone

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Repealed the prohibition law

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21st Amendment

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Girls who wore shirt skirts and danced a lot

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Flappers

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Hat that was in style

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Clothe

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Creator of planned parenthood

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Margaret Sanger

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Was an artist

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John Martin

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Famous for painting lots of flowers

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Georgia O Keeffe

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Famous author who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemmingway

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famous Lost Generation writer

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Gertrude Stein

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Lost generation writer

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Edith Wharton

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Silent movies that were comedic. People really flocked to see these films. It set the style at the times. These Movie theaters were Movie Palaces. They united the people. Usually an organ player would play along with the movies.

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Motion Picture

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First motion picture

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The jazz singer

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Famous sex symbol MOVIE STAR

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Rudolph Valentino

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Female movie star

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Clara Bow

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Famous male actor

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Charlie Chaplin

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Most famous baseball player

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Babe ruth

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most famous golfer

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bobby jones

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most famous tennis player

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Helen willis

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Most famous boxer

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Jack demsey

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Changed the culture. Jazz went North. Many African Americans moved to Harlem (Area of Manhattan). In the 20s there was an explosion of talent that came out of Harlem.

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Great migration

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Harlem Writer

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Langston Hughes

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Another harlem writer

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Cluade mckay

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Famous painter

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Archibald Montley

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White owned and all the entertainers were black and only whites were in the audience.

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Cotton Club

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Harlem Dancer

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Josephine Backer

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harlem actor who became a communist

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Paul Roberson

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famous trumpet player

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Louis Armstrong

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famous jazz player

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Cab Calloway

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From Jamaica, very flamboyant. Wanted Blacks to be proud of their African Heritage. Started the steamship Line to go back to Africa. He started the US NIA. Black Nationalism.

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Marcus Garvey